Overview
- Chime is now playing at New York’s IFC Center on a Janus Films double bill with a new 4K restoration of Serpent’s Path, with bookings set for San Francisco and Atlanta on April 3 and Chicago and Los Angeles on April 10.
- The 45-minute psychological thriller follows a cooking teacher drawn toward violence by a faint ringing sound that characters describe as a chime.
- Reviews point to an austere, sterile look and a matter-of-fact stabbing that critics call chilling without providing tidy explanations.
- Critics report there are no plans for streaming or physical media, which makes the limited theatrical run the primary way to see the film for the foreseeable future.
- Writers connect the short to Kurosawa’s earlier work on social and technological unease, and Reverse Shot notes the project’s origins on the Roadstead blockchain platform with no online release planned.